Jan. 31, 2026
The Sudden Passing of Catherine O'Hara; "Mama, I Thought We Had More Time"
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RSS Feed So many of us are devastated and surprised to hear the news that 71 year old Cathrine O’Hara suddenly died after what officials are calling “a brief illness.” Although O’Hara missed the Golden Globes after being nominated for her role in “The Studio” there was no indication she was ill. Beloved and honored for her role as Moira Rose in “Schitts Creek”, O’Hara is also being remembered by those who worked and loved her throughout her 50 plus year career from the “Home Alone” movies, to “Beetlejuice” and so much more.
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Speaker 1: And good morning everybody.
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Speaker 2: It is Saturday, January thirty first, and many people got word late yesterday, or you might just be waking up to the news that one of our most beloved, familiar actresses, just a dear, dear lady that everybody knows from Shit's Creek, everybody knows as the mom in Home Alone, Catherine O'Hara, has died at the age of seventy one. And with that, welcome to this Saturday edition of Amy and TJ.
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Speaker 1: Robes.
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Speaker 2: Seventy one is young these days. That is not even good. That's not a full life, even it's considered these days. So when you hear seventy one, you go, what in God's name happened?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 4: This was This was actually not only shocking but devastating to so many of us who absolutely love Catherine O'Hara and love the laughter and enjoy that she has brought to us for decades now. And yes, I am a huge Shits Creek fan, but I know you love Home Alone and so many of the other incredible beetlejuice. I mean, she has just been an iconic fixture in comedic movies and television for our generation. And I mean my daughter was the first to notify me. She said, no, say it isn't so not Catherine O'Hara. She is a legend, and it's you know, you remember how genius she was, but you also remember how she made you feel.
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Speaker 2: You know what, I didn't necessarily put her in a category of is a comedy legend. I think it's home alone because she was hilarious in the movie, but there was a charm and a motherly quality to her that you kind of made her so endearing just as a motherly figure, and you didn't necessarily see a comedian performing that was brilliant. And I'm talking out as I read more and more about her, they talk about how she put so much time and effort into being quirky, into being different, and it came through. But that's why I was like, oh, comedy legend. Oh that's right, she's fucking hilarious.
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Speaker 3: Oh my god.
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Speaker 4: I mean and you know, I love how you just put that, because I was going to say her comedy seemed effortless, but that speaks to the effort that went on behind the scenes to make sure.
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Speaker 3: That's how it came across.
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Speaker 4: And I think what resonated so much with fans is Yes, her individuality. She wasn't following anyone else, she wasn't being like anyone else. She was so uniquely herself, and it's something I think we all aspire to have the confidence to do and become. She was that, and she embodied that, and it was She absolutely was someone to look up to and admire.
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Speaker 2: And I think I've always admired folks who make something look so easy that you don't realize how hard it is. She was one the news anchors I've seen before. People don't even realize how much effort goes into that performance. They just think it shows up and it's natural. Know she puts much work into it, but this is what we know right now, folks again passed away at the age of seventy one. Apparently there was a call to her home for a medical emergency at around four forty eight am local time there in California. Authorities got there. According to LA Fire Out there there was a brief illness. This is according to her agency. Actually this was a brief illness that she had, but she was taken to the hospital in serious condition and passed away at the age of seventy one. At this moment ropes. That's all we know. But we also know that this is a woman that in recent days or weeks or years, she hasn't we haven't known about some serious medical ongoing issue she was having. So this came out of nowhere. But I didn't realize roe she missed the globes.
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Speaker 4: Yes, I didn't either, because I was actually looking at the most recent photos of her, and the last one I believe was in September, and she did look noticeably thinner. I don't know if that had anything to do with her passing, but the pictures before that she was vibrant and stunning, and never ever was there a hint that anything was wrong or that there was any health concern for her. I think that is why it is so shocking. I said to you, oh my god, Catherine O'Hara and Diane Keaton within months of each other, like those actually were two of my idols, just women who I have watched on the screen and just admired and wanted to be more like. And just again, the joy that they brought to audiences, it's just so incredibly it's jarring, and it's a reminder just how quickly in a moment everything can change. We have our parents, like my parents are her age, My parents are young.
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Speaker 3: I always say my parents are so young, they're seventy two.
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Speaker 4: But to see this, it jars you into reality that no one is We're all impermanent, and it's just this is a moment to honor her and try to figure out what happened. But also these are the moments where you say, wow, we all need to just be kinder, recognize how little time we have.
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Speaker 3: On this earth, and just enjoy our lives. And she did that by all accounts.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we those reminders you talk about, we get him, it seems often, but we don't heed those warnings. And we don't heed those reminders, it seems. And again you juxtaposed this with what's going on around the country and politics on the streets of America, and this is one robes where there are very few things that bring us all together, and this seems to be, in my opinion, a woman who has reached I don't know how they do it, but we have some entertainers that are just beloved. No matter who you are, they touched your life in some way, It does not matter. I mean, I would argue Rob Ryner a lot of people upset with his politics and whatnot, But this is a guy whose art and what he did touched everything and everybody. I think about Will Ferrell for some reason, like he's become this overwhelmingly just beloved. Yes, he's our guy, like everybody just embraces him.
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Speaker 1: She was one.
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Speaker 2: I think Diane Keaton was one. I don't know how they do it, but she is just a treasure I.
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Speaker 3: Know, And you're right.
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Speaker 4: I didn't think about that, but you it doesn't matter who you voted for or what you think about. Like everybody can put on Shit's Creek and laugh their butts off because they just nailed it.
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Speaker 3: They were able to resonate with everybody.
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Speaker 4: That is such an unbelievable talent and skill to be able to do that.
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Speaker 2: We'll go through Shit's Creek, Beetlejuice Home alone recently in the studio. Yes, you're singing it, so these that's like four decades of icons yep, right, those are iconic things. There's nobody listening to me who is not impacted by one of her projects to the point that you love, like it played a role in your life in some way. It's not just I saw it and I liked it that just very few are able to get to where she was and did, and it's it's it's a damn shame because I think the point on the Studio, which was she was nominated for she was set to come back for another season and we just started watching that show and she is a hot, big booty, hilarious, intense mess in that show.
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Speaker 4: She plays a hot mess so well, I think that is actually a good way to describe.
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Speaker 3: That was kind of her go to.
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Speaker 4: She had different versions of it in different characters, but she was and I think maybe that's what we all related to because inside, don't we all feel like a hot mess.
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Speaker 3: But she was able to elevate a.
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Speaker 4: Hot mess in a way where you're like, yeah, you go ahead, you be that person and just lean into who you are.
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Speaker 3: I loved what she brought.
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Speaker 4: She she made everybody around her better too. She played off people well, it wasn't about being seen a scene stealer, which she often did, but it was in conjunction with the people around her. And the folks who worked with her had nothing but high praise for her throughout her life.
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Speaker 3: And you know what, also, she was private.
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Speaker 4: I didn't even realize that she had two sons, and who she was married to, and the fact that she talked about recently just HER's mother and how you talked about her motherly quality and some of these roles, these comedic roles. The heart of what she brought to those roles, she says, came from being a mother.
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Speaker 2: It was probably something that that was something relatable about. I mean, a mother working her ass off, doing her best, keeping the family in the house and the kids together, and you messed up and you left a kid behind it, and you did it twice actually, but there was I think there was even some charm, like you're not mad in saying a bad mother. You're almost rooting for and like, yeah, I screwed up one time too. That was just I don't know. That role was the one that I think catapulted her, not just in terms of fame, but in our hearts. In a way she was we love her and it was set after that. Just seventy one is the health history part roles.
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Speaker 1: I didn't know.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if this contributed, and nobody is suggesting that, but I didn't know. She had this very very rare and even the way she put it freakish condition.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I relate to her on this because I've had a couple of freakish condis she is. Really this is kind of embarrassing, but this is my life. She had a congenital heart condition. It was called cardia in versus and she described it as this Her heart and her lungs were on the other side of her body, so there was something she always had to be careful, She always had to be aware. I guess there were restrictions and limitations in her life knowing that she had this condition, and.
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Speaker 3: She said that also helped her live differently.
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Speaker 4: Knowing that she had this condition made her more aware and more she just honored her health and was more aware of how quickly things can change and how delicate our balance is in our health versus you know, just being healthy. And I appreciated that it made her live differently.
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Speaker 2: And again, there was no no suggestion right now that contributed in any way to her death, only her agency saying that she died after a brief illness. Now you did mention her husband. She actually met him on the set of Beatle Juice. He's a set designer and I think he's an Oscar nominated, Yes, set designer. But they met in nineteen ninety two, got married, have two sons, Luke and Matthew, ages twenty eight and thirty two, respectively. Now I did not know this about here, about her Rose, but you say her name, and the first thing I attached next to her is Eugene Levy. Yes, the first thing I do. I didn't realize they went back as far as they did, fifty years they have been together and started at a legendary comedy troupe in Canada.
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Speaker 1: I didn't realize. That's a beautiful story, you know.
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Speaker 4: And when you look at someone's life and you see these long lasting friendships, like five decades of friendship and working together, that speaks to who those people are and how they value relationships, which again makes me just.
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Speaker 3: Love her even more.
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Speaker 4: But Second City SETV, they have so many legends that came out of that Canadian comedic center, and she was among them. Yes, with Eugene Levy, I mean those two were just a powerhouse together. I mean they were I could watch them all day every year.
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Speaker 2: But to think someone started working together whatever the reason the eighty four was that in my head, I'm not sure if that's the exact one rose. But we were talking forty fifty years ago, and to think they were still making quality, hit, award winning television just a few years ago.
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Speaker 1: That is a long sign.
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Speaker 2: That is a that is better than most marriages can hope to have success. Seriously, robe you'd survive with somebody and putting out for fifty years it right, That's that's amazing, and he put out. Look, there have been several tributes, and I think when you heard that she passed, you wanted to hear from him, and you wanted to hear from Macaulay Caulkin, and we did hear from both of them. Look, plenty of celebrities have put a lot of statements out who she had an impact with. But this was kind of incredible what Eugene Levy did have to say about her.
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Speaker 4: Yes, he said, words seem inadequate to express the loss I feel today. I had the honor of knowing and working with the great Catherine O'Hara for over fifty years, from our beginnings on the Second City Stage to SETV to the movies we did with Chris Guest to our six glorious years on Shit's Creek. I cherished our working relationship, but most of all our friendship, and I will miss her. My heart goes out to Bo, Matthew Luke and the entire O'Hara family.
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Speaker 1: I know that.
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Speaker 2: It's a weird way to think about it, Robes, but it's she was married to a guy for less time than she was working with Eugene Levy.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, her work husband.
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Speaker 2: That is just true. And it's hard to imagine. You're not trying to compare suffering. It's hard to imagine anybody hurting, hurting worse than Eugene Levy's one. Yeah, it's hard to imagine that, including her family everything. That's just it's got to be tough on this guy. And of course we know. I think Sabine was telling us recently that whatever reason, Home Alone two was her favorite, right. That's when he gets lost in New York. Donald Trump is in that.
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Speaker 1: We watched this recently. We've watched this movie.
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Speaker 3: We just watched this movie around Christmas time.
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Speaker 4: We there and it was so fun to relive that movie and see it through the eyes of a twelve year old and she loves it as much as we did all those years ago.
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Speaker 2: But it was funny hear her say that she likes Home Alone too, more than the original Home Alone.
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Speaker 1: But I mentioned that mcaulay culkin.
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Speaker 2: Of course, that movie propelled him into the cutest super stardom probably we will ever see in a child actor. But he had some very sweet words to say as well. Stay here, we'll share the statement from mcaulay culchin and talking about his mama. Stay here, all right, we continue here on Amy and TJ on this Saturday, January thirty. First, many of you waking up to the news that Catherine O'Hare has passed away at the age of seventy one. Whereas we mentioned all of the the I guess, iconic roles and iconic films show she's been in. Forgot the Engine, it was Shit's creak right where she got the Golden Globe and the Emmy.
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Speaker 4: She played Moira Rose and look, I could never begin to imitate her hilarious accent that she created, but it has been tried, and she really was the heart of that show.
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Speaker 3: I told you I read.
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Speaker 4: Variety critic wrote, after she won, I mean she won let's see a Primetime Emmy, a Golden Globe, sag After's Actor Award, TCA Award, and Critics Choice Award for her role as Moira Rose.
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Speaker 3: That is how good she was.
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Speaker 4: But she said, this is how she described her, a proudly out of touch lady of leisure, forced to rub elbows with the hoy POLOI. Moira's impactful, impractical outfits and fish out of water frenzy helped crystallize the comedic contrast.
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Speaker 3: That was the serious creative engine.
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Speaker 4: She literally ma, I mean, everybody was fantastic on that cast, but she was appointmentalth and she made that show.
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Speaker 3: You couldn't wait to hear what Moira Rose was.
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Speaker 4: Gonna say and what she going to wear in this shit's creek motel that she was forced to live in.
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Speaker 3: It was genius.
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Speaker 2: So good again in reading now and learning about her, how much work and effort and study she didn't just show up and start being silly. She has been honing this crab. And by the way, that the Comedy Troupe in Canada, she started there as a waitress, and she says she got good because she was waiting on folks and serving drinks and whatever else and listening and studying everybody on stage. She's there learning as she's making money. She tried out once and they said, go back to waitressing, tried out a second time, and the rest is history.
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Speaker 4: That just made me fall in love with her even more. That gave me chills, and I think, you know what, looking you see people once they've reached started and you think, oh, yeah, they've just had it that way their whole lives. To hear how people fought and continue to work hard to get to where they are, that is so inspirational.
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Speaker 2: Is it something inspirational I mentioned Diane Keaton. I guess there's a Meryl Street. There's certain actresses like beloved and talented and all these things who might not go around or walk around and have their names out there even want to be tabloid fodder or even doing these glamorous She was aging appropriately, Yes, she was one of these, this group of aging stars in the Hollywood who just aged, who.
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Speaker 4: Aged and still because of their talent and their hard work, got roles. Because that's always the argument, Oh I'm never going to work again because I'm old, and nobody wants to see an aging woman. There are several phenomenal, talented women who have proved that theory wrong.
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Speaker 2: Now I want to reserve room for it's few and far between. She might be a point that, yes, they always want younger and more beautiful and people who knows, But there's just something about a Diane Keaton and all Helen.
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Speaker 3: Muir, Helen Uir and Glenn Close.
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Speaker 4: You know, you can you can name some of these actors who have defied that fear.
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Speaker 1: Angela Bassidis, Yes, favorite of mine.
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Speaker 3: Man, she looks still looks thirty five.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's some different genes there. But we do want to mention Macaulay cull Can put out a sweet comment. Everybody was waiting to hear from him, of course ropes.
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Speaker 4: Yes, he said, Mama, I thought we had more time. Oh, it's going to make me cry. I wanted more time. I want to sit in a chair next to you. I heard you, but I had so much more to say. I love you, I'll see you later.
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Speaker 2: Well that's one his his life, his career, his stardom, his everything will forever be linked to her, like right next to his face. You will always almost put hers because she yes, he was the star of that movie. She was the other star of that movie that she said that was the thing before Shit's Creek. People will come up to her on the street. Most of the time and ask her to scream out Kevin. But after that they all wanted Moro lines after my.
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Speaker 4: Bebe Oh yes, she was huh hilarious. Oh yeah, you know what what got me? I thought we had more time. Isn't that what people always say or think when someone passes sooner than anyone expects. I thought we had more time. I want to remember that today because we have right now. And that's that is what I take away from what Macaulay Culkin had to say.
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Speaker 3: Michael Keaton also.
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Speaker 4: Had some kind words, obviously his his time with her Beetlejuice and I haven't I haven't watched that movie in Forever.
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Speaker 1: She was a wasn't she the stepmom? Wasn't she more alike?
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Speaker 4: Yes?
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Speaker 3: And she has yes?
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Speaker 4: And you know what that's she could play a villain and you still liked her like she was a likable villain, if that's even possible. But he said, she's been my pretend wife, my pretend neminis. Oh my gosh, I cannot talk my pretend nemesis and my real life true friend.
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Speaker 3: This one hurts.
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Speaker 2: That's and again we always think we have more time. Again, it's a passing.
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Speaker 1: Is sad?
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Speaker 2: Always to lose somebody you've been with that long, but to lose them suddenly when you actually have plans with them the next week, or you have a call, or you didn't return that text, or you were waiting. We all have been in that position, and this is just another reminder. She's been thriving. Just award nominations, new season, the studio coming up, all that's going on in our life, and seventy one years old, we wake up and she's gone. So that is why, in a lot of ways, this one hits and hurts a little more. And this is somebody who absolutely was beloved and touched us all and frankly, when you say Catherine Harra, I'll be honest. When I first heard it, it takes me a beat. The name didn't immediately register. Then you take a second, go oh, and you start reeling off every movie you can name her characters.
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Speaker 1: All of this.
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Speaker 2: So she's That's a tough one. It sucks, but another reminder and good to look back and smile. We'll be watching several of her projects here in the coming days.
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Speaker 4: I was just gonna say that I want to Oh my gosh, I've been saying. I know you've watched a couple of Ship's Creeks episodes with me, but I said, I would love to go back and just watch that series in honor of her, And I think, man, we have all deserved, we all deserve a little bit of laughter in our lives, and she certainly provides that. So we're gonna we're gonna be checking out what she left us in the legacy that she leaves for all of us, not just in her work, but how she lives. So rest in peace, Catherine O'Hara, thank you for all of the memories, and with that, everyone, thank you for listening to us. I'm Amy Roebach alongside T. J.
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Speaker 3: Holmes. We hope you have a wonderful pintist
Speaker 1: And good morning everybody.
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Speaker 2: It is Saturday, January thirty first, and many people got word late yesterday, or you might just be waking up to the news that one of our most beloved, familiar actresses, just a dear, dear lady that everybody knows from Shit's Creek, everybody knows as the mom in Home Alone, Catherine O'Hara, has died at the age of seventy one. And with that, welcome to this Saturday edition of Amy and TJ.
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Speaker 1: Robes.
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Speaker 2: Seventy one is young these days. That is not even good. That's not a full life, even it's considered these days. So when you hear seventy one, you go, what in God's name happened?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 4: This was This was actually not only shocking but devastating to so many of us who absolutely love Catherine O'Hara and love the laughter and enjoy that she has brought to us for decades now. And yes, I am a huge Shits Creek fan, but I know you love Home Alone and so many of the other incredible beetlejuice. I mean, she has just been an iconic fixture in comedic movies and television for our generation. And I mean my daughter was the first to notify me. She said, no, say it isn't so not Catherine O'Hara. She is a legend, and it's you know, you remember how genius she was, but you also remember how she made you feel.
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Speaker 2: You know what, I didn't necessarily put her in a category of is a comedy legend. I think it's home alone because she was hilarious in the movie, but there was a charm and a motherly quality to her that you kind of made her so endearing just as a motherly figure, and you didn't necessarily see a comedian performing that was brilliant. And I'm talking out as I read more and more about her, they talk about how she put so much time and effort into being quirky, into being different, and it came through. But that's why I was like, oh, comedy legend. Oh that's right, she's fucking hilarious.
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Speaker 3: Oh my god.
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Speaker 4: I mean and you know, I love how you just put that, because I was going to say her comedy seemed effortless, but that speaks to the effort that went on behind the scenes to make sure.
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Speaker 3: That's how it came across.
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Speaker 4: And I think what resonated so much with fans is Yes, her individuality. She wasn't following anyone else, she wasn't being like anyone else. She was so uniquely herself, and it's something I think we all aspire to have the confidence to do and become. She was that, and she embodied that, and it was She absolutely was someone to look up to and admire.
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Speaker 2: And I think I've always admired folks who make something look so easy that you don't realize how hard it is. She was one the news anchors I've seen before. People don't even realize how much effort goes into that performance. They just think it shows up and it's natural. Know she puts much work into it, but this is what we know right now, folks again passed away at the age of seventy one. Apparently there was a call to her home for a medical emergency at around four forty eight am local time there in California. Authorities got there. According to LA Fire Out there there was a brief illness. This is according to her agency. Actually this was a brief illness that she had, but she was taken to the hospital in serious condition and passed away at the age of seventy one. At this moment ropes. That's all we know. But we also know that this is a woman that in recent days or weeks or years, she hasn't we haven't known about some serious medical ongoing issue she was having. So this came out of nowhere. But I didn't realize roe she missed the globes.
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Speaker 4: Yes, I didn't either, because I was actually looking at the most recent photos of her, and the last one I believe was in September, and she did look noticeably thinner. I don't know if that had anything to do with her passing, but the pictures before that she was vibrant and stunning, and never ever was there a hint that anything was wrong or that there was any health concern for her. I think that is why it is so shocking. I said to you, oh my god, Catherine O'Hara and Diane Keaton within months of each other, like those actually were two of my idols, just women who I have watched on the screen and just admired and wanted to be more like. And just again, the joy that they brought to audiences, it's just so incredibly it's jarring, and it's a reminder just how quickly in a moment everything can change. We have our parents, like my parents are her age, My parents are young.
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Speaker 3: I always say my parents are so young, they're seventy two.
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Speaker 4: But to see this, it jars you into reality that no one is We're all impermanent, and it's just this is a moment to honor her and try to figure out what happened. But also these are the moments where you say, wow, we all need to just be kinder, recognize how little time we have.
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Speaker 3: On this earth, and just enjoy our lives. And she did that by all accounts.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we those reminders you talk about, we get him, it seems often, but we don't heed those warnings. And we don't heed those reminders, it seems. And again you juxtaposed this with what's going on around the country and politics on the streets of America, and this is one robes where there are very few things that bring us all together, and this seems to be, in my opinion, a woman who has reached I don't know how they do it, but we have some entertainers that are just beloved. No matter who you are, they touched your life in some way, It does not matter. I mean, I would argue Rob Ryner a lot of people upset with his politics and whatnot, But this is a guy whose art and what he did touched everything and everybody. I think about Will Ferrell for some reason, like he's become this overwhelmingly just beloved. Yes, he's our guy, like everybody just embraces him.
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Speaker 1: She was one.
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Speaker 2: I think Diane Keaton was one. I don't know how they do it, but she is just a treasure I.
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Speaker 3: Know, And you're right.
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Speaker 4: I didn't think about that, but you it doesn't matter who you voted for or what you think about. Like everybody can put on Shit's Creek and laugh their butts off because they just nailed it.
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Speaker 3: They were able to resonate with everybody.
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Speaker 4: That is such an unbelievable talent and skill to be able to do that.
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Speaker 2: We'll go through Shit's Creek, Beetlejuice Home alone recently in the studio. Yes, you're singing it, so these that's like four decades of icons yep, right, those are iconic things. There's nobody listening to me who is not impacted by one of her projects to the point that you love, like it played a role in your life in some way. It's not just I saw it and I liked it that just very few are able to get to where she was and did, and it's it's it's a damn shame because I think the point on the Studio, which was she was nominated for she was set to come back for another season and we just started watching that show and she is a hot, big booty, hilarious, intense mess in that show.
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Speaker 4: She plays a hot mess so well, I think that is actually a good way to describe.
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Speaker 3: That was kind of her go to.
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Speaker 4: She had different versions of it in different characters, but she was and I think maybe that's what we all related to because inside, don't we all feel like a hot mess.
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Speaker 3: But she was able to elevate a.
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Speaker 4: Hot mess in a way where you're like, yeah, you go ahead, you be that person and just lean into who you are.
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Speaker 3: I loved what she brought.
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Speaker 4: She she made everybody around her better too. She played off people well, it wasn't about being seen a scene stealer, which she often did, but it was in conjunction with the people around her. And the folks who worked with her had nothing but high praise for her throughout her life.
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Speaker 3: And you know what, also, she was private.
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Speaker 4: I didn't even realize that she had two sons, and who she was married to, and the fact that she talked about recently just HER's mother and how you talked about her motherly quality and some of these roles, these comedic roles. The heart of what she brought to those roles, she says, came from being a mother.
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Speaker 2: It was probably something that that was something relatable about. I mean, a mother working her ass off, doing her best, keeping the family in the house and the kids together, and you messed up and you left a kid behind it, and you did it twice actually, but there was I think there was even some charm, like you're not mad in saying a bad mother. You're almost rooting for and like, yeah, I screwed up one time too. That was just I don't know. That role was the one that I think catapulted her, not just in terms of fame, but in our hearts. In a way she was we love her and it was set after that. Just seventy one is the health history part roles.
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Speaker 1: I didn't know.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if this contributed, and nobody is suggesting that, but I didn't know. She had this very very rare and even the way she put it freakish condition.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I relate to her on this because I've had a couple of freakish condis she is. Really this is kind of embarrassing, but this is my life. She had a congenital heart condition. It was called cardia in versus and she described it as this Her heart and her lungs were on the other side of her body, so there was something she always had to be careful, She always had to be aware. I guess there were restrictions and limitations in her life knowing that she had this condition, and.
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Speaker 3: She said that also helped her live differently.
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Speaker 4: Knowing that she had this condition made her more aware and more she just honored her health and was more aware of how quickly things can change and how delicate our balance is in our health versus you know, just being healthy. And I appreciated that it made her live differently.
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Speaker 2: And again, there was no no suggestion right now that contributed in any way to her death, only her agency saying that she died after a brief illness. Now you did mention her husband. She actually met him on the set of Beatle Juice. He's a set designer and I think he's an Oscar nominated, Yes, set designer. But they met in nineteen ninety two, got married, have two sons, Luke and Matthew, ages twenty eight and thirty two, respectively. Now I did not know this about here, about her Rose, but you say her name, and the first thing I attached next to her is Eugene Levy. Yes, the first thing I do. I didn't realize they went back as far as they did, fifty years they have been together and started at a legendary comedy troupe in Canada.
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Speaker 1: I didn't realize. That's a beautiful story, you know.
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Speaker 4: And when you look at someone's life and you see these long lasting friendships, like five decades of friendship and working together, that speaks to who those people are and how they value relationships, which again makes me just.
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Speaker 3: Love her even more.
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Speaker 4: But Second City SETV, they have so many legends that came out of that Canadian comedic center, and she was among them. Yes, with Eugene Levy, I mean those two were just a powerhouse together. I mean they were I could watch them all day every year.
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Speaker 2: But to think someone started working together whatever the reason the eighty four was that in my head, I'm not sure if that's the exact one rose. But we were talking forty fifty years ago, and to think they were still making quality, hit, award winning television just a few years ago.
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Speaker 1: That is a long sign.
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Speaker 2: That is a that is better than most marriages can hope to have success. Seriously, robe you'd survive with somebody and putting out for fifty years it right, That's that's amazing, and he put out. Look, there have been several tributes, and I think when you heard that she passed, you wanted to hear from him, and you wanted to hear from Macaulay Caulkin, and we did hear from both of them. Look, plenty of celebrities have put a lot of statements out who she had an impact with. But this was kind of incredible what Eugene Levy did have to say about her.
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Speaker 4: Yes, he said, words seem inadequate to express the loss I feel today. I had the honor of knowing and working with the great Catherine O'Hara for over fifty years, from our beginnings on the Second City Stage to SETV to the movies we did with Chris Guest to our six glorious years on Shit's Creek. I cherished our working relationship, but most of all our friendship, and I will miss her. My heart goes out to Bo, Matthew Luke and the entire O'Hara family.
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Speaker 1: I know that.
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Speaker 2: It's a weird way to think about it, Robes, but it's she was married to a guy for less time than she was working with Eugene Levy.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, her work husband.
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Speaker 2: That is just true. And it's hard to imagine. You're not trying to compare suffering. It's hard to imagine anybody hurting, hurting worse than Eugene Levy's one. Yeah, it's hard to imagine that, including her family everything. That's just it's got to be tough on this guy. And of course we know. I think Sabine was telling us recently that whatever reason, Home Alone two was her favorite, right. That's when he gets lost in New York. Donald Trump is in that.
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Speaker 1: We watched this recently. We've watched this movie.
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Speaker 3: We just watched this movie around Christmas time.
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Speaker 4: We there and it was so fun to relive that movie and see it through the eyes of a twelve year old and she loves it as much as we did all those years ago.
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Speaker 2: But it was funny hear her say that she likes Home Alone too, more than the original Home Alone.
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Speaker 1: But I mentioned that mcaulay culkin.
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Speaker 2: Of course, that movie propelled him into the cutest super stardom probably we will ever see in a child actor. But he had some very sweet words to say as well. Stay here, we'll share the statement from mcaulay culchin and talking about his mama. Stay here, all right, we continue here on Amy and TJ on this Saturday, January thirty. First, many of you waking up to the news that Catherine O'Hare has passed away at the age of seventy one. Whereas we mentioned all of the the I guess, iconic roles and iconic films show she's been in. Forgot the Engine, it was Shit's creak right where she got the Golden Globe and the Emmy.
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Speaker 4: She played Moira Rose and look, I could never begin to imitate her hilarious accent that she created, but it has been tried, and she really was the heart of that show.
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Speaker 3: I told you I read.
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Speaker 4: Variety critic wrote, after she won, I mean she won let's see a Primetime Emmy, a Golden Globe, sag After's Actor Award, TCA Award, and Critics Choice Award for her role as Moira Rose.
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Speaker 3: That is how good she was.
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Speaker 4: But she said, this is how she described her, a proudly out of touch lady of leisure, forced to rub elbows with the hoy POLOI. Moira's impactful, impractical outfits and fish out of water frenzy helped crystallize the comedic contrast.
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Speaker 3: That was the serious creative engine.
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Speaker 4: She literally ma, I mean, everybody was fantastic on that cast, but she was appointmentalth and she made that show.
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Speaker 3: You couldn't wait to hear what Moira Rose was.
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Speaker 4: Gonna say and what she going to wear in this shit's creek motel that she was forced to live in.
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Speaker 3: It was genius.
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Speaker 2: So good again in reading now and learning about her, how much work and effort and study she didn't just show up and start being silly. She has been honing this crab. And by the way, that the Comedy Troupe in Canada, she started there as a waitress, and she says she got good because she was waiting on folks and serving drinks and whatever else and listening and studying everybody on stage. She's there learning as she's making money. She tried out once and they said, go back to waitressing, tried out a second time, and the rest is history.
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Speaker 4: That just made me fall in love with her even more. That gave me chills, and I think, you know what, looking you see people once they've reached started and you think, oh, yeah, they've just had it that way their whole lives. To hear how people fought and continue to work hard to get to where they are, that is so inspirational.
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Speaker 2: Is it something inspirational I mentioned Diane Keaton. I guess there's a Meryl Street. There's certain actresses like beloved and talented and all these things who might not go around or walk around and have their names out there even want to be tabloid fodder or even doing these glamorous She was aging appropriately, Yes, she was one of these, this group of aging stars in the Hollywood who just aged, who.
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Speaker 4: Aged and still because of their talent and their hard work, got roles. Because that's always the argument, Oh I'm never going to work again because I'm old, and nobody wants to see an aging woman. There are several phenomenal, talented women who have proved that theory wrong.
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Speaker 2: Now I want to reserve room for it's few and far between. She might be a point that, yes, they always want younger and more beautiful and people who knows, But there's just something about a Diane Keaton and all Helen.
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Speaker 3: Muir, Helen Uir and Glenn Close.
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Speaker 4: You know, you can you can name some of these actors who have defied that fear.
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Speaker 1: Angela Bassidis, Yes, favorite of mine.
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Speaker 3: Man, she looks still looks thirty five.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's some different genes there. But we do want to mention Macaulay cull Can put out a sweet comment. Everybody was waiting to hear from him, of course ropes.
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Speaker 4: Yes, he said, Mama, I thought we had more time. Oh, it's going to make me cry. I wanted more time. I want to sit in a chair next to you. I heard you, but I had so much more to say. I love you, I'll see you later.
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Speaker 2: Well that's one his his life, his career, his stardom, his everything will forever be linked to her, like right next to his face. You will always almost put hers because she yes, he was the star of that movie. She was the other star of that movie that she said that was the thing before Shit's Creek. People will come up to her on the street. Most of the time and ask her to scream out Kevin. But after that they all wanted Moro lines after my.
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Speaker 4: Bebe Oh yes, she was huh hilarious. Oh yeah, you know what what got me? I thought we had more time. Isn't that what people always say or think when someone passes sooner than anyone expects. I thought we had more time. I want to remember that today because we have right now. And that's that is what I take away from what Macaulay Culkin had to say.
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Speaker 3: Michael Keaton also.
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Speaker 4: Had some kind words, obviously his his time with her Beetlejuice and I haven't I haven't watched that movie in Forever.
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Speaker 1: She was a wasn't she the stepmom? Wasn't she more alike?
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Speaker 4: Yes?
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Speaker 3: And she has yes?
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Speaker 4: And you know what that's she could play a villain and you still liked her like she was a likable villain, if that's even possible. But he said, she's been my pretend wife, my pretend neminis. Oh my gosh, I cannot talk my pretend nemesis and my real life true friend.
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Speaker 3: This one hurts.
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Speaker 2: That's and again we always think we have more time. Again, it's a passing.
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Speaker 1: Is sad?
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Speaker 2: Always to lose somebody you've been with that long, but to lose them suddenly when you actually have plans with them the next week, or you have a call, or you didn't return that text, or you were waiting. We all have been in that position, and this is just another reminder. She's been thriving. Just award nominations, new season, the studio coming up, all that's going on in our life, and seventy one years old, we wake up and she's gone. So that is why, in a lot of ways, this one hits and hurts a little more. And this is somebody who absolutely was beloved and touched us all and frankly, when you say Catherine Harra, I'll be honest. When I first heard it, it takes me a beat. The name didn't immediately register. Then you take a second, go oh, and you start reeling off every movie you can name her characters.
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Speaker 1: All of this.
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Speaker 2: So she's That's a tough one. It sucks, but another reminder and good to look back and smile. We'll be watching several of her projects here in the coming days.
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Speaker 4: I was just gonna say that I want to Oh my gosh, I've been saying. I know you've watched a couple of Ship's Creeks episodes with me, but I said, I would love to go back and just watch that series in honor of her, And I think, man, we have all deserved, we all deserve a little bit of laughter in our lives, and she certainly provides that. So we're gonna we're gonna be checking out what she left us in the legacy that she leaves for all of us, not just in her work, but how she lives. So rest in peace, Catherine O'Hara, thank you for all of the memories, and with that, everyone, thank you for listening to us. I'm Amy Roebach alongside T. J.
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